Pocket for wagon-stakes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS M. SELZER, O F ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

POCKET FOR wAGoN-sTAKEs.

s'PEcrEI'cATIoN forming part er peeters :Patent No. 623,042, date Api 11, 1899.

Application filed December 27, 1898. SerialNo. 700,846. (No model.)

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, .IULIUS M. SELZER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pockets for Wagon-Stakes, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification. y

My invention relates to 'a pocket for holding wagon-stakes, and is an improvement upon Letters Patent No. 351,246, granted October 19, 1886, to Hermann H. Bothe, of St. Louis, Missouri.

It consists in features of novelty thereover hereinafter specificallypointed out and claimed.

Referring to the drawings which form a part of this specification, Figure I shows a perspective view of my invention fastened to the side of awagon with a stake placed therein. Fig. II is a vertical section thereof.

1 represents a part of a wagon-frame, and 2 the face-plate of the pocket, which is adapted to be secured thereto.

3 are the side wallsof the stake-pocket, eX- tending at right angles from the said faceplate 2, and 4 is the front wall thereof.` The front walltis inclined to the line of the faceplate 2, and the side walls 3 may or may not be so inclined.

5 are bolts or screws by means of which the pocket is secured to the side of the wagon 1.

Suspended from and forming a part of the vpocket is a lower extending lip 6, whose inner surface is inclined at an angle to the line of the face-plate 2. The side walls 3 of the pocket extend down, forming supports 7 for the said lip G. This lip Gis preferably placed, as shown in the drawings, below the faceplate 2; but it may be placed in the inclined front wall 4. A

S is the wagon-stake, adapted to be dropped into the pocket as described.

When the stake 8 is placed in the pocket, the inclined front wall 4E thereof acts in the capacity of awedge to retain thesaid stake securely in place. Its lower end, as the stake is jolted or worked down into the pocket, will bear against the lip 6, which tends to secure the same more firmly in place. It will be observed that as the stake is forced downwardinto the pocket and it bears against the lip 6 it will fulcrum upon the upper edge of the face-plate 2 and the lower edge thereof be forced outwardly, so that the top of the said stake will be drawn inwardly toward the wagon-body. The danger of the old forms of stake-pockets was twofold, in that the stake became so firmly fastened in the pocket that it was only removed with difficulty and that when it worked loose the upper end was drawn outwardly.

With the form of pocket which I have described the inner side of the lip 6 forms an inclined surfacewhich forces the upper end of the stake inwardly andvpermits the stake to be easily removed by striking it on the bottom with a hammer or another stake, thus removing the two greatest difculties in mer constructions.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a pocket for wagon-stakes provided with a lip having an inclined inner surface against which the lower end of the stake is adapted to bear, substantially as described.

2. A pocket for wagon-stakes, rectangular in cross-section, having a vertical back, an inclined front, and provided with a lip having an inclined inner surface against which the lower end of the stake is adapted to bear, substantially as described.

3. Apocket for wagon-stakes, having a vertical back, extensions affording means of attachment to the wagon-body, an inclined front, and a lip having an inclined inner surface against which the lower end of the stake is adapted to bear, substantially as described.

JULIUs M. sELZER.

In presence of- E. S. KNIGHT, STANLEY STONER.

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